{"id":140980,"date":"2022-06-22T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/using-microbrewery-waste-to-synthesize-carbon-quantum-dots"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:24:18","slug":"using-microbrewery-waste-to-synthesize-carbon-quantum-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/using-microbrewery-waste-to-synthesize-carbon-quantum-dots","title":{"rendered":"Using microbrewery waste to synthesize carbon quantum dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-microbrewery-waste-to-synthesize-carbon-quantum-dots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a few years now, spent grain, the cereal residue from breweries, has been reused in animal feed. This material could also be used in nanotechnology. Professor Federico Rosei\u2019s team at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown that microbrewery waste can be used as a carbon source to synthesize quantum dots. The work, done in collaboration with Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon of the \u00c9cole de technologie sup\u00e9rieure (\u00c9TS), was published in the Royal Society of Chemistry\u2019s journal RSC Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Often considered \u201cartificial atoms,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+dots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum dots<\/a> are used in the transmission of light. With a range of interesting physicochemical properties, this type of nanotechnology has been successfully used as a sensor in biomedicine or as LEDs in next generation displays. But there is a drawback. Current quantum dots are produced with heavy and toxic metals like cadmium. Carbon is an interesting alternative, both for its biocompatibility and its accessibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years now, spent grain, the cereal residue from breweries, has been reused in animal feed. This material could also be used in nanotechnology. Professor Federico Rosei\u2019s team at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown that microbrewery waste can be used as a carbon source to synthesize quantum dots. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}